Too much wrestling

[Kostka]

I can't watch wrestling like a lot of you guys. I can't have hundreds of discs and shit laying around that I feel like I NEED to watch...that spells immediate burn out. It can't feel like its a job. Its gotta be at my own pace when I feel like or else I tap out. Right now all im watching is the 80s All Japan set, weekly WWE and whatever I feel like pulling up on YouTube in the moment (watched Luger/Guerrero from 96 Sat Night that I saw being pimped and really, really liked that as a late in the game Luger gem and Eddy being a great spunky babyface).

[Mad Dog]

It doesn't bother me having all that stuff. The last time the wife went out of town, I just started randomly grabbing discs out of the box and watching them. It can sit there for months and I won't think about it. They'll still be there when I want to watch.

[jdw]

I can't watch wrestling like a lot of you guys. I can't have hundreds of discs and shit laying around that I feel like I NEED to watch...that spells immediate burn out.

I don't overly get stressed out about it. I'm sure that I could have watched some of it this weekend, but I preferred to spend it:

 

Sat

4:00 AM - 1:30 AM

Everton vs ManU + Chelsea vs Arsenal + 3 episodes of Castle with the girlfriend + College Football-O-Rama (flipping around to too many games to list) + ManCity vs Wolves (off the dvr from earlier)

 

Sunday

8:00 AM - 10:30 PM

Spurs vs QPR + Goals On Sunday + Barcelona vs Mallorca (off the dvr from Sat) + NFL

 

I'm sure that I could find some time in there for Wrestling, but I'd like to sleep more than the 3 hours I got on each of Thursday and Friday nights. And get some exercise in (such as heading out the door now).

 

So I don't get too stressed about all the crap laying around he to watch. It will get watched at some point, especially when I scale back some on the futbol and college football goes away after the new year.

 

John

[FLIK]

So as kind of a follow up question along the same lines as the original topic. I'm curious how ppl keep track of all the wrestling they watch/own or if they even do so at all?

 

I still remember, things used to be so simple back in the mid to late 90's. All I had were a small amount of home made comps of stuff i'd tape off tv that i'd watch over and over and a tiny handfull of comm stuff, there were only 2 - 3 promotions I had access to and almost all the footage I had took place within the previous 3-4 years tops. Could get by quite well with just a few handwritten bare bones match listings for each tape. Wrestler A vs Wrestler B, maybe jot down if it was a title match or if it was a PPV include the name of it.

 

Now it's 2011, I never throw out any match ever, i've collected 1000's upon 1000's of hrs of footage from well over 100 promotions around the world from the 1970's on with even a few things earlier then that. These days just to keep track of it all I keep all the info in a data base file or rather several of them. Broken down by promotion and including other info such as date, match time, if it's from a big US promotion what show it took place on like RAW or Nitro or whatever, the location of the DVD or tape so I can actually find the damn things when I need to, a personal rating for the match and ocasionally other comments or notes like if it was a title change or had a big angle attatched to it.

 

Not as complicated as it may sound or time consuming and actually helps a good bit making me wish i'd done it sooner as i've got a crap ton of uncataloged stuff still that i'll prob never get around to making much of a dent in. Heck, i've got so much unwatched stuff i've had to make a seperate list just for that

[Mad Dog]

I only catalog Dragon Gate and New Japan because I own such a high volume of shows that I don't want to buy duplicates.

[flyonthewall2983]

I'm clearly a tourist here compared to you guys :/

[JerryvonKramer]

After The Olympics, I'm going to start THE NEW DISCIPLINE. In any given week I hope to watch:

 

One episode of Tuesday Night Titans or Prime Time

 

One NWA / PPV for podcast

 

At least an hour of AWA for DVDR 80s Project

 

At least an hour of 1990 yearbook.

 

That's roughly 5 hours of wrestling spread out over the week. It will be humanly possible!

[Troy]

I have the same problem of continuing to buy shit and never watching it

 

It's there for when I do want to watch it though

[BrickHithouse]

I start out with the sets looking for specific wrestlers. If Stan Hansen is on a set, I skip through and watch all of his matches first, then progress from there depending on what I'm in the mood for. "Wrestling Season" for me is March - August and I have tons of stuff purchased the previous year that I watch. So when each viewing season rolls around there's always stuff I haven't watched yet sitting there ready to roll. I try to stay one year ahead with the discs so I never run out. When September rolls around I start watching classic and current NFL games with the same level of (unhealthy) obsession. On the rare occasion I can sometimes fit in time with my wife

[tim]

i bought a ton of comps and tapes when i was in high school(probably not a ton compared to most of YOU guys, but compared to most sane people, it was a lot of disks and vhs'), and probably a bit my first year out of hs. haven't bought much in the past couple years; had all my dvds and tapes stored in my mom's basement, she moved and i guess assumed i didn't want them anymore and threw them out

 

the only thing i have left is a schneider comp 25 dvd which happened to be in the box of my cd's that i've been carrying around with me between college apartments. so im traveling light again as far as wrestling footage goes. then again its been a couple years since i've been an insane mega fan watching tons of footage on a regular basis.

[JerryvonKramer]

While I was on holiday, I devised "The August Discipline". Every night my wife goes to bed around 10pm. In theory I should be going to bed around 12am -- however, as anyone who knows me will know, in practice I tend to go to bed about 5am. I want to try to finally cure my life-long insomnia by going to bed every night at 12am.

 

I have tried to structure my activities work, rest, play, food, etc. for an entire week. I will not bore you with the irrelvant details of the rest of it, but I have ear-marked 10pm-12am every night for wrestling watching.

 

I want to take the Chad Campbell approach of watching a couple of hours every day, instead of what I do which is leave things for ages and then "cram".

 

I also want to be more diversified with my viewing to take in more of the footage I've collected. As such, I've devised the following system -- 2 hours per night.

 

Monday: Midsouth or Memphis ["Mid-south / Memphis Monday"]

Tuesday: New Japan

Wednessday: 79-83 WWF ["WWF Wednesday"]

Thursday: Yearbook

Friday: Viewing for podcast

 

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The only thing I'm undecided on is whether to do Mid-South or Memphis first. I actually forgot that I picked up the Memphis set.

[anarchistxx]

Not to be a downer but such regimented scheduling never works in my opinion. Life can't be arbitrarily split into two hour blocks like that, unless you are Hugh Grant in About A Boy or something. I give it two weeks.

[Matt D]

There was a guy posting things on justin.tv a few years back and he kept to a schedule and a lot of my watching fell on that schedule until I ended up getting way behind.

[JerryvonKramer]

My thought was that sharing this schedule with you guys rather than keeping it private will give some sort of incentive / punative mechanism to stick to it. If I fail, anarchistxx can say "I told you so".

 

How will you know if I fail? Well, if there's no posts in the relevant threads I'll be making for Midsouth and New Japan, or in the Yearbook threads, then that's a strong indication I'm not doing the watching.

 

If there's no podcast, however, it's 99% likely that it's Chad's fault.

[Troy]

I have boxes of DVDs unwatched. It's pretty ridiculous. I figure one day I'll go through all of it but I don't see that happening any time soon

[BrickHithouse]

Same here. Figure I have about 5 years worth of stuff I haven't gotten to yet, and have no chance of getting to for another year or so.

[RazorbladeKiss87]

My wrestling backlog is getting overwhelming. I have hundreds of dvds that I've never watched and get more each day. On top of that I've got single matches and full shows on hard drives that I never get to. The crazy thing is I watch a few hours of wrestling each day. I just continually am getting new dvds in. I used to have a buddy/roommate who would veg out for hours with me and we'd knock off dvd after dvd but since he moved it's mainly just me and after a bit it tends to get boring.

 

I just bought the 1997 yearbook however and I have a strong feeling I'll blow through that quickly.

 

For the guys that catalog their discs, do you just use simple spreadsheet programs like Excel or what? I'd like to try getting back into trading by maybe joining Crazymax but wouldn't want to do so without some sort of organized list.

[khawk20]

For the guys that catalog their discs, do you just use simple spreadsheet programs like Excel or what? I'd like to try getting back into trading by maybe joining Crazymax but wouldn't want to do so without some sort of organized list.

I type mine out and put them in specific Word files...a "big" list, divided in to several categories, and several individual category listings.

 

Example:

 

4413 WWE 24/7: WWWF Champ. TV October 15th, 1977 40 min EX-

Butcher Vachon vs. Bob Markus, Mil Mascaras vs. Johnny Rodz, Stan Stasiak vs.

Johnny Rivera, The Golden Terror vs. Lenny Hurst, Bob Backlund vs. Bill Swift,

Chief Jay Strongbow & Peter Maivia vs. Ali Baba & Baron Mikel Scicluna.

 

 

I have also started an Excel list that is just disc number and title, but it will take a long time to finish it as I did not do this from the start. It's more of a spare time project.

[adamsie]

I've got 800gb of wrestling most of it wcw and about 100 disks that i havent watched and im still downloading wrestling, at the moment it's 1999 worldwide with 1992 wcw pro

 

The last time i seriously watch wrestling was in 2009 with Punk and Hardy, when that ended i just stopped watching

 

I still like reading everyones opinions about it

[Kevin Ridge]

Watch your stuff! I'm getting towards the end of the Mid South set and have the 97 Yearbook waiting for me to start. Also got a couple WWE Blu Rays haven't got to yet. Nothing too much to catch up on though.

 

I'm using an excel sheet right now that tracks my WWF/WCW/ECW stuff and full matches from those groups that appear on yearbooks. It's getting quite large and I haven't even started to include other groups yet.

 

*Edit*

 

I forgot about the Death of WCW set that I'm only in the initial few discs of.

[Wahoos Leg]

My wrestling backlog is getting overwhelming. I have hundreds of dvds that I've never watched and get more each day. On top of that I've got single matches and full shows on hard drives that I never get to. The crazy thing is I watch a few hours of wrestling each day. I just continually am getting new dvds in. I used to have a buddy/roommate who would veg out for hours with me and we'd knock off dvd after dvd but since he moved it's mainly just me and after a bit it tends to get boring.

 

I just bought the 1997 yearbook however and I have a strong feeling I'll blow through that quickly.

 

For the guys that catalog their discs, do you just use simple spreadsheet programs like Excel or what? I'd like to try getting back into trading by maybe joining Crazymax but wouldn't want to do so without some sort of organized list.

 

I've got one spreadsheet cataloguing where everything is (which spindle, rack, hard drive, et cetera). Said spreadsheet also has different tabs indexing everything by promotion / region, with full matchlists (a work in progress, to be sure).

 

Another spreadsheet catalogues everything in my collection, in chronological order. (Another work in progress). But it's also super handy if I want to only pull up, for example, everything World Class in my collection. Or, everything where Lawler and Dundee wrestled with or against one another.

[Matt D]

I have Youtube.

 

And the AWA 80s set. And a Dangerous Alliance set.

 

And Youtube.

[Smack2k]

For the guys that catalog their discs, do you just use simple spreadsheet programs like Excel or what? I'd like to try getting back into trading by maybe joining Crazymax but wouldn't want to do so without some sort of organized list.

I type mine out and put them in specific Word files...a "big" list, divided in to several categories, and several individual category listings.

 

I have also started an Excel list that is just disc number and title, but it will take a long time to finish it as I did not do this from the start. It's more of a spare time project.

 

I have been working on this same thing, the excel sheet with EVERYTHING I have....I label the show, major matches or angles on it , quality, source (TV / 24/7, comp..etc..), media type (VHS / DVD / HDD) and length. If its still on my HDD (I have about 15 TB of Wrestling on 4 HDD's) that arent on DVD or VHS. I also mark down the file size and on which HDD its on. I will do this for every episode of every season I have as well as with the big shows and comp discs...Also have a seperate sheet for individual matches...

 

Its a crazy project and I've been at it for about 3 years now (the excel sheet part anyway) and I do it when I can (at work (I am in IT, so when a server is installing or a Database is running a big report, in spare time / etc, at night before bed...)..I enjoy it a lot. You really get to see a ton of stuff you dont know you had (at least I do)..and when I am tired of it, I stop...no need to force something I am supposed to enjoy!

 

I used to try and do "wrestling days" where I'd plan out what I was gonna watch during the day before and then watch it...but once my son was born, that was all over..now I watch when I can...no rhyme or reason...I am starting to get more time to watch as he is 2 1/2 and starting to watch with me...

 

As far as how much footage I have that I havent watched...I cant count it anymore...too much!

 

I dont watch teh current product at all...just dont find any passion for it or anything to hook me in.

[anarchistxx]

I have Youtube.

 

And the AWA 80s set. And a Dangerous Alliance set.

 

And Youtube.

Who wants to watch wrestling in a window on a laptop screen? Just viewing stuff on Youtube takes any of the fun away from me. If I ever put aside any time to watch anything, I want to lie back and watch it in proper quality on a proper television.

[WingedEagle]

I have Youtube.

 

And the AWA 80s set. And a Dangerous Alliance set.

 

And Youtube.

Who wants to watch wrestling in a window on a laptop screen? Just viewing stuff on Youtube takes any of the fun away from me. If I ever put aside any time to watch anything, I want to lie back and watch it in proper quality on a proper television.

 

I generally feel the exact same way. I've got a couple long wrestling playlists on Youtube but never really make it there as I'd rather pop in a DVD and watch on the big screen. It really loses something for me and is basically only an option if I'm not home and have time to kill somewhere.